Swaptree.com

http://www.swaptree.com/

Last activity: 25.05.2010

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Employees

11-50

Total raised

$10.8M

Funding Rounds 2

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Mar 16, 2010	Funding round	$4.8M

Mentions in press and media 16

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May 25, 2010	Swaptree bags $6M to grow site for DVD, CD, book and video game trading	We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today! Swaptree, a web-based swap meet for books, CDs, D...
May 25, 2010	Swaptree bags $6M to grow site for DVD, CD, book and video game trading	Swaptree, a web-based swap meet for books, CDs, DVDs and video games, has nabbed $6 million in fresh venture funding. The news comes at a time of expansion for the company, which has also just named Jeff Bennett as its new CEO. Based in Bos...
May 24, 2010	Swaptree Gets New CEO, Funding	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Swaptree, a Boston-based website enabling users to trade used books, DVDs, CDs, and video games, announced today that it has hired Jeff Bennett as its CEO, and said it has com...
May 24, 2010	Swaptree.com Completes $6M Financing Round	Swaptree.com, a Boston, MA-based website that allows people to swap books, CDs, DVDs and video games, completed a $6m financing round. The investment was led by Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE: SFE), with participation from numerous priva...
Mar 16, 2010	Swaptree Raises $4.8 Million	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints Swaptree, a Boston startup whose website allows members to trade used books, DVDs, CDs, and video games, has raised $4.8 million out of a planned $6 million offering involving...
Jun 17, 2009	And the Winner Is…New England Innovation, at the MITX Technology Awards	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints The Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange, an organization of 7,500 New England professionals in the Internet and digital marketing and advertising fields, handed o...
Apr 3, 2009	Mooch Takes Aim At GameStop With Video Game Swapping Market	Mooch is a new video game trading site looking to help users trade games directly with each other, allowing them to bypass middleman stores like GameStop and save money in the process. Depending on how new and popular the games being traded...
Jan 24, 2009	QXL Founder Tim Jackson To Launch DVD Lending Site LendAround	Tim Jackson has had a colorful career. He is a former journalist (Financial Times, Independent, Economist and Red Herring) and was the managing director of the $700 million Carlyle Internet Partners Europe Fund. He founded QXL in 1997, a UK...
Sep 22, 2008	Forget eBay. Use Swaptree.	We’ve been covering Boston-based Swaptree since mid 2006. The company, which is creating a network of users who swap books, CDs, DVDs and video games, just raised a third round of financing – $3.3 million from Safeguard Scientifics. The tot...
Sep 4, 2007	Swaptree, online trading, now on Facebook	If you’ve got a book, CD, DVD or video game that you no longer need, check out Swaptree, where you can trade any of these items for one of thousands of others. Right in time for the back-to-school textbook rush, the Boston-based company has...
Jun 28, 2007	TechCrunch Readers Can Join Swaptree Now	I just posted on the Swaptree private beta and upcoming launch. You can actually join right now, and there are no limits on signups. Just go to swaptree.com/techcrunch.htm and follow the instructions. Let me know what you think.
Jun 28, 2007	SwapTree, Back From The Dead – In Private Beta	I was sure trading site Swaptree had been abandoned. After a flurry of press about them over a year ago, they went very quiet. Potential investors told me they’d just stopped returning calls completely. My own emails went unanswered as well...
Jun 20, 2006	Swaptree Update, First Screen Shots	A couple of weeks ago I wrote a somewhat negative post about an unlaunched startup in Boston called Swaptree. Ouriel wrote a follow up post comparing Swaptree (unfavorably) to a French service called SplitGames. Since that time I’ve had a c...
Jun 2, 2006	Something I Don't Get About Swaptree	The model behind new startup Swaptree, which will launch later this summer, is to allow people to trade media – books, music, dvds and videogames – directly with other users. As Rafe Needleman notes, here are other services out there that o...
May 24, 2006	Catching up with SwapTree, Limbo and Trulia	Bite Communications hosted a get-together at a South of Market wine bar last night to introduce folks to several new companies (some are clients, some are not). We came late and had to leave early, but we had a chance to meet the founders o...

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FAQ about Swaptree.com

How much funding has Swaptree.com raised?

Swaptree.com has raised $10.8M in total across 2 funding rounds.

What funding rounds has Swaptree.com raised?

Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of Swaptree.com, among them a funding round of $4.8M on Mar 16, 2010.

What has the press written about Swaptree.com?

Parsers VC has collected 16 articles mentioning Swaptree.com, among them “Swaptree bags $6M to grow site for DVD, CD, book and video game trading” (May 25, 2010) and “Swaptree bags $6M to grow site for DVD, CD, book and video game trading” (May 25, 2010).

Is Swaptree.com still active?

Yes, Swaptree.com is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 25, 2010.